Afghanistan Changed Everything, Part One Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Goulds new book The Valediction: Three Nights of Desmond (available at TrineDaydotcom) is a novelized memoir about Americas involvement in Afghanistan, which began in the 1970s as an obsession to give the Soviet Union its own Vietnam. As journalists, Paul and Liz witnessed firsthand how our involvement became a neoconservative cause celebre and the CIAs largest covert operation in history, which is now undoing not only the American empire but also the concept of empire itself.